Generation of degenerate, factorizable, pulsed squeezed light at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24434-24447

  Gerrits, Thomas ^a   Stevens, Martin J ^a   Baek, Burm ^a   Calkins, Brice ^a   Lita, Adriana ^a   Glancy, Scott ^a   Knill, Emanuel ^a   Nam, Sae Woo ^a   Mirin, Richard P ^a   Hadfield, Robert H ^b   Bennink, Ryan S ^c   Grice, Warren P ^c   Dorenbos, Sander ^d   Zijlstra, Tony ^d   Klapwijk, Teun ^d   Zwiller, Val ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS;

FREQUENCY MODES; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; PERIODICALLY POLED KTP; PHOTON CORRELATION; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; PUMP BEAMS; SECOND ORDERS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SPECTRAL FILTERS; SQUEEZED LIGHT; SQUEEZED STATE; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 82055191994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024434     Document Type: Article

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